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Useful Folk Train Related Sites:
- http://www.folkmusic.org/
- http://www.glossop.com/folktrain/
- MP3 Free downloads
- more related sites
- Exchange sites/links (must be related)
- Music Sites
- Buy Musical Instruments
Folk Train History:
- 24 April 2001 visit to the Old Nag’s Head
- August 2001 Spain
- 22 January 2002 Ireland
- September 2005 North Derbyshire and South Yorkshire
- October 2006 Sheffield Folk Festival
- June 2007 The Day after the big flood. The Folk Train was cancelled.
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- October 2007 New Mills Town Hall
- October 2008 The Sheffield Folk Festival
- Wessex Folk Festival
- ...more
Artist's Sites:
Manchester - Hathersage Folk Train
Train departs Manchester Piccadilly at 1145 calling at all stations from Reddish North to Hathersage. The band plays at the Little John Hotel, Hathersage. Return on the 1432 train from Hathersage, calling at all the same stations, except Strines, arriving at Manchester Piccadilly at 1532.
Saturday 11 April 2009 with the Rainy City Bluegrass Band
Traditional bluegrass at its best.
Saturday 2 May 2009 with The Duffers
Lively traditional music plus the Crown Rapper Sword dancers.
Saturday 23 May 2009 community rail month event with Dom Colins
Excellent comedy solo performer
Saturday 6 June 2009 with Blue Heart
Country, blues and bluegrass
Saturday 20 June 2009 with Nelson Peach
Traditional and American folk music.
Train Schedules (coming)
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Recommended: Folk Music Books
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Folk Music News:
5 Feb 2012 at 5:00pm
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A religious order which have provided free care to hundreds of elderly people in Manchester is celebrating its 150th anniversary.
Little Sisters of the Poor provide round-the-clock care in Longsight to some of the city?s most vulnerable elderly people.
Little Sisters of the poor to celebrate 150 years in Longsight 6 Feb 2012 at 7:48am
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David Woollam and William Lindfield had been waiting in their 12-tonne fire engine while the rest of their crew checked a flood-damaged care home.
Mr Woollam, 58, is understood to have reversed the vehicle in order to turn it around ? but hit the wall of a neighbouring home.
Cheadle firefighter sacked for lying after engine crashes into garden wall in... 6 Feb 2012 at 2:35am
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We can reveal children?s services chiefs have drawn up proposals to keep the centres open.
But the cuts mean plans to end council-run daycare for under-fives will go ahead. Instead, there will be an outreach programme that will see every family of a newborn visited at home by a council worker, who will stay in touch until the child is three.
Saved: Manchester's Sure Start centres to stay open after massive protest by ... 3 Feb 2012 at 1:29am
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A 28-year-old man was beaten up and bundled into a car by four men in front of terrified shoppers at Fallowfield retail park during an attack in broad daylight.
Man, 28, beaten up and bundled into car in front of shoppers at Fallowfield r... 2 Feb 2012 at 12:31pm
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The two-week Irish extravaganza, now in its 17th year, brings more than 200 events ? covering everything from music to literature, film to sport ? to scores of venues across the city.
Organisers expect more than 200,000 people from all over the world to visit for the events connected to the celebration, between Friday, March 2 and Sunday, March 18.
Sinead O'Connor and The Dubliners to star at ?biggest? Manchester Irish Festival 2 Feb 2012 at 4:24am
Folk Music News:
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Pop/Rock Listings for Jan. 27-Feb. 2 (topics.nytimes)
25 Jan 2012 at 10:00pm
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The Fragile - O'Hooley & Tidow (Spiral Earth)
2 Feb 2012 at 7:11am
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Sandy Denny - 19 Rupert Street (BBC)
14 Sep 2011 at 4:00pm
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Young Man In America - Anaïs Mitchell (Spiral Earth)
31 Jan 2012 at 2:50am
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Thea Gilmore and the words of Sandy Denny - Don?t Stop Singing (BBC)
10 Nov 2011 at 5:00pm
Folk Music News:
Folk News
• Share With Friends: | | Music - Folk Stories, RSS Feeds and Widgets via Feedzilla.
Pop/Rock Listings for Jan. 27-Feb. 2 (topics.nytimes)
25 Jan 2012 at 10:00pm
• Share With Friends: | | Music - Folk News, RSS and RSS Feed via Feedzilla.
The Fragile - O'Hooley & Tidow (Spiral Earth)
2 Feb 2012 at 7:11am
• Share With Friends: | | Music - Folk News, RSS and RSS Feed via Feedzilla.
Sandy Denny - 19 Rupert Street (BBC)
14 Sep 2011 at 4:00pm
• Share With Friends: | | Music - Folk Stories, RSS and RSS Feed via Feedzilla.
Young Man In America - Anaïs Mitchell (Spiral Earth)
31 Jan 2012 at 2:50am
• Share With Friends: | | Music - Folk Stories, RSS and RSS Feed via Feedzilla.
Thea Gilmore and the words of Sandy Denny - Don?t Stop Singing (BBC)
10 Nov 2011 at 5:00pm
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